NewsNet Current Issues

NewsNet (ISSN 1074-3057), a newsletter of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, is published five times a year, in January, March, May, August, and October, and includes information about the field of Slavic, Russian, Central European, and Eurasian studies and is distributed to all ASEEES members.

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2017 Issues

August — includes "Broadening Career Opportunities and Training for PhDs: A Discussion at ASEEES," by Melissa Bokovoy (University of New Mexico); three "alt-ac" career Member Spotlights from Elana Jakel (US Holocaust Memorial Museum), Faith Wilson Stein (Stanford University Press), Daniel Peris (Federated Investors); and "Portable Practices of Critical Social Inquiry: Taking East Central Europe Global," by Jonathan Larson (Grinnell College). In addition to our usual features, we are proud to announce the 2017 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies award recipient.

June — includes "Central Asian Islam Outside a Soviet Box," by Morgan Y. Liu (The Ohio State University); "Opening the Vaults: Art Folios & Resources of the Hoover Institution Library," by Michael Herrick (Hoover Institution); "The Lost Archive of Major Martin Manhoff," by Douglas Smith; and "The Prague Spring Archive Project," by Ian P Goodale (University of Texas). In addition to our usual features, we are proud to announce the Cohen-Tucker Research Fellowship Recipients. [This version is available by clicking on the month title or by clicking here for a version best viewed on mobile devices.]

The June issue is intended to be available primarily online and is not mailed except on request.

March — includes "Misbehaving Women and the Russian Revolutions of 1917," by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild (Harvard University), "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide: An Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny," by Norman M. Naimark (Stanford University), "Contingent Faculty and Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies: A Report by ASEEES Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession," by Sharon A. Kowalsky (Texas A&M University-Commerce), and "Celebrating Crime and Punishment at 150," by Kate Holland (University of Toronto) and Katherine Bowers (University of British Columbia). Additionally, the issue includes ASEEES Prizes Calls for Submissions, announcements about the First Book Subvention and Mentoring programs, and our regular features. [This version is available by clicking on the month title or by clicking here for a version best viewed on mobile devices.]

The March issue is intended to be available primarily online and is not mailed except on request.

March— includes "The 'Red South': Reflections on Teaching Race in the Post-Soviet Era," by Jennifer Wilson (University of Pennsylvania); "A Public Empire: An Interview of Ekaterina Pravilova," by Choi Chatterjee (Cal State University, Los Angeles); "Unique Academic Venture: the University Consortium," by Julie Newton (University of Oxford); Calls for Submissions to ASEEES Prizes, Additional Prizes, First Book Subvention Program, Dissertation Research Grant; an introduction to our new staff members, our usual features, and a spotlight on Elena Clark. [This version is available by clicking on the month title or by clicking here for a version best viewed on mobile devices.]

The March issue is intended to be available primarily online and is not mailed except on request.

June— includes "Using Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to Teach Ethics in the Twenty-First Century" by Ani Kokobobo, University of Kansas; information about ASEEES First Book Subvention Program; "A Cautionary Tale for the Digital Age" by Barry P. Scherr, Dartmouth College; Affiliate Group Spotlight on Digital Humanities. This issue also contains our usual features, including Personages, Publications, Institutional Member and Affiliate News, and In Memoriam; additionally, 2016 ASEEES Board Election candidates. Finally, 2016 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship Recipients and 2016 ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention Travel Grant Recipients are announced.

The June issue is intended to be available primarily online and is not mailed except on request.

August— includes "Grappling with Hungarian and Polish New Right in Power” by David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; “Get the Word Out! How to Bring Your Expertise to the Public” by Joshua A. Tucker, NYU; “Successful ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention Held in Lviv, Ukraine” by Lynda Park, ASEEES, and Olga Bukhina, MAG; and “A Student’s Experiences at the ASEEES Convention” by Lina Meilus, Indiana U. ASEEES congratulates John Bowlt, the 2016 ASEEES Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award recipient. 2016 ASEEES Travel Grant Recipients were also named and the issue includes our regular features.

October— includes “What Have We Learned, and Not Learned, from a Quarter-Century of Transition” by Harley Balzer, Georgetown University; “The Kremlin Blamed Our Work When It Declared Russia’s Levada Center a ‘Foreign Agent’” by Theodore Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Jane Zavisca, University of Arizona; and “The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children” by Serguei A. Oushakine, Princeton University. Additionally, ASEEES congratulates the 2016 ASEEES Prize Winners and thanks our 2015-2016 contributors. The issue also announces the 2017 ASEEES Convention Theme and spotlights Kieran Williams.

January—includes "In Defense of Regional Studies in a Globalized World: Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Twenty-Five Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall" the 2014 Presidential Address by Stephen E. Hanson (College of William and Mary); ASEEES Convention Important Dates; 2014 Winners of ASEEES Affiliate Organizations' Prizes; 2015 ASEEES Board of Directors; 2014 Executive Director's Report; "Following Chris Cviić: Ethics and Reconstruction from the Balkans to Ukraine" by James Gow, (King's College London, UK); the 2015 ASEEES Spring Calendar and membership forms, as well as our regular features.

June—includes "Promoting Polish Studies in the 21st Century" by Brian Porter-Szücs, University of Michigan; "Innovative Online Platform for Polish Studies" by Katarzyna Jez, European University Viadrina; "Who Cares about the Duma? Russian Parliamentary Records as a Research Source" by Andrea Chandler, Carleton University; "ASEEES and the Future of Book Publishing" by Douglas Rogers, Yale University; "Using Conferences to Find a Publisher for Your Next Book Project" by Gwen Walker, University of Wisconsin Press and the ASEEES Board Statement Regarding May 11 2015 Special Meeting Decisions. As always, our regular features appear as does an announcement about the ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention in Lviv, Ukraine, June 2016

The June issue is intended to be available primarily online and is not mailed except on request.

August—includes "Russia-related Research and Graduate Training in the United States" by Theodore P. Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison; an announcement of the new Cohen–Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship Program for Russian Historical Studies;2015 ASEEES Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award winners announcement; "Avant-gardes and Émigrés: Digital Humanities and Slavic Studies" by Marijeta Bozovic, Yale University; "Central Asia Analytical Network" by Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University; 2015 ASEEES Travel Grant recipients named; Member Spotlight: Lynn Tesser and our features, including an announcement of the first book subvention program.

October—includes "War, Escalating Vulnerabilities, and Service Delivery in Ukraine" by Sarah D. Phillips, Indiana U and Jill Owczarzak, Johns Hopkins U; 2015 ASEEES Prize Winners; "On Slavic Review: Report from the Editor" by Harriet Murav, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2014-2015 Contributors to ASEEES; "The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus" by Talin Lindsay, ARISC Executive Director; 2016 ASEEES Convention Theme and General Rules; Member Spotlight: David Hoffmann; our regular features plus information about the upcoming summer conference in Lviv and a webinar hosted by ASEEES and the Association for Jewish Studies.